Northwest Water Wellness Center

Water, Nutrition and Lifestyle stories From around the world

Clean water is an issue in Dhaka and other overcrowded cities in the region, where contamination by bacteria can lead to high rates of diarrhea, harming children’s growth and health. For Pickering, who specializes in water quality and diarrheal disease, the challenge was finding a water treatment technology that could work without electricity and operate […]

Thanks to modern chemistry, we can detect thousands of chemicals in water, even at extremely low concentrations. The ever-growing list of tests that are available can feel overwhelming, and the vast majority of methods require state-of-the art lab facilities. Fortunately, we don’t need to test for everything! A much smaller and more practical set of […]

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should . . . It is a well-known fact that water is a necessity for human life, along with food. But how long can your body last without water? The answer isn’t a simple one; it depends on the environment and the health of the person. According to Scientific American, someone who isliving in a […]

While writing my paper on desalination, I came up with the idea that the stability of a government policy would depend on how close or distant it was from the public’s ideal, i.e., …the mismatch between the incidence of costs and benefits indicates the degree of inefficiency and risk of collapse from economic, political or environmental […]